Typography Addiction

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I had to run by my house earlier (not living at home as I'm in the process of getting ready to move still) and noticed that a lot of the books on one bookcase were dedicated to typography (I'm an avid typophile, so that wasn't surprising) which made me think to look through my office & network to see just how much stuff I have dedicated to it.

Books: I have close to 100 books dedicated to typography whether its the history of, learning how to do something, or the science of typography. Worst part is, I remember reading all but two of the books .

Typefaces: 8,431 typefaces (These are all the commercial ones), and over 50,000 free typefaces.

Typography Programs: I have 15 programs that I use for typography, whether its for organizing them (Suitcase Fusion) or designing/editing them (Font Studio, Fontographer, Illustrator) and other misc ones.

Formerly CyclingTribe

I once spent 5 hours trawling through all the fonts I had at the time, just to find the perfect match for a customer's logo that he'd had done elsewhere years ago (and the design firm had closed down). I found the little blighter, but had a sore back, stiff neck and needed a gallon of coffee to get me back to normal ...

It's amazing just how minutely subtle some of the differences are between fonts, isn't it?

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I once spent 5 hours trawling through all the fonts I had at the time, just to find the perfect match for a customer's logo that he'd had done elsewhere years ago (and the design firm had closed down). I found the little blighter, but had a sore back, stiff neck and needed a gallon of coffee to get me back to normal ...

It's amazing just how minutely subtle some of the differences are between fonts, isn't it?

Thats mostly because the laws pertaining to typography IP are such that the font isn't copyrighted, only the font file is. Basically as long as you adapt the font to a way where it can b differentiated, you're doing something perfectly legal.

I actually tend to design my own fonts (or use to as its hard to use a tablet now, and its a lot of work to get things right. I much prefer designing/styling a whole new site than creating a single font sometimes .

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I remember creating a font pack years ago using some free program (can't remember what it was) and I can say I praise anyone that creates fonts. The time you can spend on these often goes overlooked, I'd go mad, okay madder than what I am if i did this for a living.

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I remember creating a font pack years ago using some free program (can't remember what it was) and I can say I praise anyone that creates fonts. The time you can spend on these often goes overlooked, I'd go mad, okay madder than what I am if i did this for a living.

I'll look into that. Judging by the screenshot it looks like it's using some kind of path, anchor point feature which is simple enough if your fluent with photoshops Pen tool.

I don't think I can justify purchasing that much for the program unless I took on some jobs which entailed this to be used and pay for itself like i did when I first purchased photoshop. But that fontlab studio does look like something I can get to grips with easily. Thanks Forsaken.

Illustrator for me is not an option, loathe using the program. If I'm correct I could do this in photoshop and then import the individual font creations to the specialised program?

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I'll look into that. Judging by the screenshot it looks like it's using some kind of path, anchor point feature which is simple enough if your fluent with photoshops Pen tool.

I don't think I can justify purchasing that much for the program unless I took on some jobs which entailed this to be used and pay for itself like i did when I first purchased photoshop. But that fontlab studio does look like something I can get to grips with easily. Thanks Forsaken.

Illustrator for me is not an option, loathe using the program. If I'm correct I could do this in photoshop and then import the individual font creations to the specialised program?

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Re: Offtopic.
Yes it was, my apologies.
I started using Arial vs. Times New Roman when I switched from Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS to Word 97. It was probably "bigger" and took up more space so I could make my essays shorter.